Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
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AUCKLAND, RIGHT REV. ROBERT JOHN EDEN, 3 Baron. _b._ Eden farm
Beckenham, Kent 10 July 1799; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam.,
M.A. 1819, D.D. 1847; R. of Eyam 1823; R. of Huntingfordbury 1825;
V. of Battersea 1835; chaplain to William iv 1831–37 and to
Victoria 1837–47; Bishop of Sodor and Man 7 May 1847; consecrated
23 May 1847; installed at Castletown 29 June 1847; translated to
see of Bath and Wells 2 June 1854; resigned his episcopal
functions Oct. or Nov. 1869; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 1
Jany. 1849. _d._ The palace, Wells 25 April 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_,
489, 490 (1870), _portrait_.
AUDLEY, GEORGE EDWARD THICKNESSE-TOUCHET, 20 Baron. _b._ 26 Jany.
1817; succeeded 14 Jany. 1837. _d._ Homburg 18 April 1872.
_Burke’s Portrait gallery ii_, 41 (1833).
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, _b._ New Orleans 4 May 1780; arrived at
Liverpool 20 July 1826; lived in England 1826–29, 1830–31, 1834–36
and 1838–39; author of _Birds of America_ published in 87 parts,
elephant folio at price of 1000 dollars; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 18
March 1830. _d._ New York Island 27 Jany. 1851. _R. Buchanan’s
Life of J. J. Audubon_ 1868, 2 _portraits_.
AUDUS, JAMES (_only son of John Audus of Selby, Yorkshire, merchant
1752–1809_). _b._ 28 July 1781; captain in York city militia
1808–33; began a coasting trade between Selby and London 1826, had
18 schooners so employed 1830; chairman of Yorkshire banking
company 1843; erected and endowed St. James’s church Selby at cost
of about £14000, laid the foundation stone 6 May 1866. _d._ Selby
14 May 1867. _W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby_ (1867) 186,
254–58.
NOTE.—He was the oldest railway director in England, having
been one of original board of Leeds and Selby railway which
obtained its act 1830.
AULDJO, JOHN. Ascended Mont Blanc 8 Aug. 1827, being the 14th ascent
ever made; F.R.G.S. 1832; F.R.S. 7 May 1840; author of _Ascent of
Mont Blanc_ 1827; _Sketches of Vesuvius_ 1832; _Journal of a visit
to Constantinople_ 1835. _d._ 1857.
AULSEBROOK, RICHARD. M.R.C.S. 1834, L.S.A. 1835; surgeon to Lambeth
workhouse; resident medical officer of Hanwell lunatic asylum;
author of _An inquiry into the physical condition of the working
classes in the parish of St. James’s Westminster_. _d._ 50 King
sq., Goswell road London 1855.
AURIOL, REV. EDWARD. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; R. of
Newton Valence, Hants 1838; R. of St. Dunstan in the West, London
1841 to death; Preb. of St. Paul’s April 1865 to death; commissary
for Bishop of Nelson 1866. _d._ 35 Mecklenbergh sq. London 10 Aug.
1880 aged 75.
AUSTEN, CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 1779; captain R.N. 10 May 1810; captain
of Bellerophon 80 guns 1838–40; awarded good service pension 1840;
R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commander in chief in East Indies 14 Jany. 1850
to death; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; _d._ Prome, Burmah 8 Oct. 1852.
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